Profile of Dr. Dinesh Katre

Education

Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP), 2010
University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), United Kingdom

Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction / Interface (HCI), 2005
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS), Pilani

Dissertation Title:
"Visualization of Interface Metaphor for Software: An Engineering Approach"
(The Ph.D. Research was completely sponsored and hosted by C-DAC)

Master of Designs (M.Des.), 1992
Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Powai, Bombay

B.F.A., Applied Arts, 1990
J. J. Institute of Applied Arts, University of Bombay

Experience

Associate Director and HOD at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, May 2011 - Present

Programme Coordinator, Human-Centred Design and Computing at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, January 2010 - May 2011

Group Coordinator, Human-Centred Design and Computing at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, April 2001 - February 2010

Team Coordinator, Multimedia Creations at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, 1998 - 2001

Member Technical Staff at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing April 1993 - March 1998

Sponsored R & D Projects

Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation (Current)
National Study Report on Digital Preservation Requirements of India
Tools for Digital Preservation Management of Heritage Archives
Interactive Game Design for Health Awareness
3D Game Design for Watershed Management Learning
Interactive Multimedia Kiosk Software for Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
Design & Development of Heritage Information System for MMRDA's Heritage Conservation Society
Typing Tutor Design for Indian Scripts
Sanskrit Sambhashanam Portal Design
Design & Development of JATAN: Virtual Museum Builder, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
CD ROMs on Life & Work of Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Mathematical Genius
Digital Library Technology Development for Indian Heritage
Multimedia Rendering of Dnyaneshari
National Multimedia Resource Centre
Multimedia Kumar Vishwakosha for School Children
Multimedia Authoring Tool Design

Positions held in Professional Associations

Recently elected and active as the Vice-Chair for Working Group 13.6 on Human Work Interaction Design of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) an organization of UNESCO.

Member of Editorial Board for International Journals

i-Manager's Journal of Educational Technology
AIAI's Journal of Intelligent Human-Computer & Web Interaction

Contributions to National & International Events

Co-organizer of HWID 2012 Conference on Work Analaysis and HCI, Copenhagen, Denmark
Invited Speaker at Allience for Permanent Access 2011, London, UK.
Chair of INTERACT 2011 Workshop on Human Work Interaction Design for e-Government and Public Information Systems" at Lisbon, Portugal
Programme Committee Member of International Conference On User Science and Engineering 2011, Malaysia
Member of Advisory Committee, International Conference On Convergence of Libraries, Archives & Museums (ICLAM), 2011, New Delhi, India
Programme Committee Member of India HCI 2010, Bangaluru, India
Programme Committee Member of International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems 2010, England
Co-chair (Research Papers Track) for India-HCI, IDID Conference, March 2010,IIT Mumbai, India
Member of Programme Committee, IFLA International Conference on Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views, February 2010, IGNCA, New Delhi, India
Member of Programme Committee for INTERACT 2009, Sweden
Organizing co-chair for IFIP HWID 2009 Conference on Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Context, Pune, India
Chair and Organizer for Indo-US Workshop on Digital Preservation 2009, Pune, India
Member of Advisory Committee & Chief Mentor for Conference on Advances in Usability Engineering (CAUE 2008), Pune, India
Lead Organizer for World Usability Day, Pune, 2007
Lead Organizer for World Usability Day, Pune, 2006
Chair and Organizer for National Conference on Multimedia Technology for Culture 2000,Pune, India

National Level Specialized Task Force / Committees

Member of Taskforce / Sub-committee on Using ICT for Adult Education and Literacy setup by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Chief Investigator and Convenor for National Expert Group setup for National Digital Preservation Programme of Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of India

Contributions to Academic Activities

Invited as the Jury for Ph.D. defense of scholars from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and I.I.I.T Hyderabad.
Guiding a Ph.D. scholar from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
Guided several M.Des. and B.Des. students from IIT Mumbai and Guwahati for their degree projects.
Member of Advisory Board of Creative-i College, Pune.

Research Publications

Technical Reports

[1] National Study Report on Digital Preservation Requirements of India (July 2010), Sponsored Research Project by Department of Information Technology, Government of India.

Volume - I Recommendations for National Digital Preservation Programme (80 Pages)
Volume - II Position Papers by National Expert Group Members (165 Pages)
ISBN for both volumes: 978-81-909383-1-0

Authored / Edited Books

[2] Visualization of Interface Metaphor for Software: An Engineering Approach, Dinesh S. Katre, Published by Universal Publisher's Dissertation Dot Com, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, January 2011. ISBN: 1599423774

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[3] Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural & Organizational Contexts, Edited by Dinesh Katre, Rikke Orngreen, Pradeep Yammiyavar, Torkil Clemmensen, IFIP AICT 316, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, 1st Edition, 2010, ISBN-10: 3642117619.

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[4] Proceedings of Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation, Edited by Dinesh Katre, Joseph Jaja, Published by C-DAC, India, 2009.

Book Chapters

[5]Torkil Clemmensen and Dinesh Katre (2012). Adapting eGov Usability Evaluation to Cultural Contexts, Chapter 21, Book edited by Elizabeth Buie and Dianne Murray, Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants, Published by Morgan Kaufmann Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-12-391063-9. (In Press)

[6] Katre D, Campos P, Clemmensen T, Orngreen R, Pejtersen A M (2011), Human Work Interaction Design for e-Government and Public Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2011: 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings Edited by Campos et al, Part IV, LNCS 6949, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, ISBN 13- 978-3642237676, Pages 730 - 731.

[7] Torkil Clemmensen, Pradeep Yammiyavar, Rikke Orngreen, Dinesh Katre (2010). Usability in a cultural context: A report on the scope, process and research results of CultUsab - the Cultural usability project, Human Work Interaction Design, IFIP AICT 316, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, 2010, pp. 3-20.

[8] Orgngreen Rikke, Katre Dinesh, Mulagapati Sandeep (2010) Analyzing Cultural Usability of Mobile Keypad Designs in Internationalization and Localization Perspectives, Human Work Interaction Design, IFIP AICT 316, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, 2010, pp. 115-131.

[9] Katre D. S., Bhutkar G., Karamarkar S (2010). Usability Heuristics and Qualitative Indicators for the Evaluation of Touch Screen Ventilator Systems, Human Work Interaction Design, IFIP AICT 316, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, 2010, pp. 83-97.

[10] Katre D. S., Sarnaik M (2010). Identifying the Cognitive Needs of Visitors and Content Selection Parameters for Designing the Interactive Kiosk Software for Museums, Human Work Interaction Design, IFIP AICT 316, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, 2010, pp. 168-179.

[11] Katre D. S. (2008). One-Handed Thumb Use on Smart Phones by Semi-literate and Illiterate Users in India, Human Work Interaction Design, IFIP AICT 316, Published by Springer Verlag, New York, 2010, pp. 189-210.

[12] Katre D (2006). Addressing the Cognitive Requirements of Users through Digital Library, 14th Chapter, DEVELOPING CYBER LIBRARIES, Edited by L. S. Ramaiah & T. Ashok Babu, Published by Allied Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 148-152.

Edited Special Journal Issue

[13] Katre D. S., Clemmensen T. (2011). Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design for E-Government and Public Information Systems, International Journal of Public Information Systems, Vol. 2011:3, Published by Mid Sweden University, ISSN 1653-4360, Sweden.

Journal Papers

[14] Katre D. S., Clemmensen T. (2011). Editorial on Human Work Interaction Design for E-Government and Public Information Systems, International Journal of Public Information Systems, Vol. 2011:3, Published by Mid Sweden University, ISSN 1653-4360, Sweden, pp. 101-104.

[15] Katre D. S., Gupta M. (2011). Expert Usability Evaluation of 28 State Government Web Portals of India, International Journal of Public Information Systems, Vol. 2011:3, Published by Mid Sweden University, ISSN 1653-4360, Sweden, pp. 115-130.

[16] Katre D. S. (2011). Digital preservation: converging and diverging factors of libraries, archives and museums - An Indian perspective, IFLA Journal, Vol. 37, no. 3, October 2011, Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 195-203.

[17] Bhutkar G. , Katre D., Rajhans N., Deshmukh S. (2008). Scope of Ergonomics Design and Usability for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU): An Indian Perspective, Article 3., Journal of Ergonomics Australia, Published by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), Vol 22, Number 1, March-June 08, pp. 26-32.

[18] Katre D (2007). Model Based Heuristics for Constructivist e-Learning, I-Manager's International Journal of Education Technology, January-March 2007, Volume 3, No. 4, pp. 58-65.

[19] Katre D (2006). Unorganized Cognitive Structures of Illiterate as the Key Factor for Rural E-learning Design, I-Manager's International Journal of Education Technology, January-March 2006, Volume 2, No.4., pp. 67-72.

[20] Katre D (2005). Designing the Teacher Like Behavior of e-Learning System: A Case Study of Indian Scripts Typing Tutor, I-Manager's International Journal of Education Technology,Oct-Dec. 2005, Volume 2, No.3, pp. 60-65.

Research Papers / Articles

[21] Katre D and Gupta M (2011), Usability Evaluation of 28 State Government Portals of India, IFIP INTERACT 2011 Workshop on Human Work Interaction Design for e-Government and Public Information Systems, Lisbon, Portugal.

[22] Katre D (2011). Converging and Diverging Factors of LAMs Paradigm in Digital Preservation and Gap Analysis from Indian Perspective, Proceedings of International Conference on Convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums (ICLAM 2011), Published by Pragun Publishing and NIFT, ISBN: 938039714-3, February 2011, pp. 1-10.

[23] Ganesh Bhutkar, Ravi Poovaiah, Dinesh Katre and Shekhar Karmarkar, Semiotic Analysis combined with Usability and Ergonomic Testing for Evaluation of Icons in Medical User Interface€, IndiaHCI 2011, April 7-10, 2011, Bangalore, India.

[24] Katre D (2011). A Symphony of Design and Computing: Interaction Design, POOL International Design Magazine, February 2011 / #08, pp.4-5.

[25] Bhutkar, G. Rajhans, N. Katre, D. Dhore, P.D.M. Barbadekar, B., Analysis and design of ICU Knowledge Management System (IKMS) for Indian environment with usability perspective, International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE) 2010, Singapore Pages 329 - 333

[26] Katre D. S. (2009). Ecosystem for Digital Preservation in Indian Context: A Proposal for Sustainable and Iterative Lifecycle Model, In Proceedings of Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation, March 2009, Pune, India, pp. 137-141.

[27] Katre D. S., Bhutkar G. (2009). Guiding Principles of Medical Usability, Medical Equiments and Automation, July-Sept 2009, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 30-35.

[28] Katre D. S. (2008). One-Handed Thumb Use on Smart Phones by Semi-literate and Illiterate Users in India: A Usability Report with Design Improvements for Precision and Ease, In Proceedings of Workshop on Cultural Usability and Human Work Interaction Design, NordiCHI Conference, Lund, Sweden, October 2008.

[29] Bhutkar G. , Katre D., Rajhans N., Deshmukh S. (2008). Scope of Ergonomics Design and Usability for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU): An Indian Perspective, Article 3., Journal of Ergonomics Australia, Published by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), Vol 22, Number 1, March-June 08, pp. 26-32.

[30] Katre D (2007). Indian e-Government Initiative: An Ideal Case for Universal Design and Usability, Design for All Institute of India's Newsletter, April 2007 and CHI Bangalore's Community Portal.

[31] Katre D. S. (2006), 'A Position Paper On Cross-cultural Usability Issues of Bilingual (Hindi & English) Mobile Phones', In the Proceedings of Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, Hosted by Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

[32] Katre D (2006). Unorganized Cognitive Structures of Illiterate as the Key Factor for Rural E-learning Design, I-Manager's International Journal of Education Technology, January-March 2006, Volume 2, No.4., pp. 67-72.

[33] Katre D, Pandya D (2006). Concept of Language in the Computer Science, National Seminar on Concept of Language, Centre for Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Pune, India.

[34] Katre D (2005). Museums, Monuments and Historical Information: Synthesis Using Digital Library and Virtual Reality Technologies, Workshop on Digital Archeology, Organized by Indo-US S&T Forum, Massoorie, India.

[35] Katre D (2005). Multimedia Education: Current Scenario and Future Potential, Special Issue of Sampada on Education by Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Agriculture, July 2005, pp27-29.

[36] Katre D (2005). Applying Transactional Analysis (TA) and Ego-states for HCI Design in e-Learning: A Case Study of Indian Scripts Typing Tutor, National Seminar on e-Learning and e-Learning Technologies ELTECH 2005, Hyderabad, India, pp. 16-20.

[37] Katre D (2005). Juxtaposing Commentary of Task Performance (CTP) and Interface Play Script (IPS) for Discovering Interface Metaphors, In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Management (ICIM), Mumbai, India, Volume II, pp. 809-818.

[38] Katre D (2004). Using Mnemonic Techniques as part of Pictorial Interface for Self Identification of Illiterate Villagers, In Proceedings of International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (I-HCI 2004) organized by IESUP and CSI, Bangalore, India.

[39] Katre D, Puntamkar S, Gajbhiye J (2004). Design and Development of JATAN: Virtual Museum Builder, In Proceedings of NACLIN 2004, India, pp. 247-257.

[40] Katre D (2004). Pragmatic and Usable Approach for Digital Library Initiatives in India, Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL), New Delhi, India, Volume I, pp. 41-48.

[41] Katre D (2004). Experimenting with UniFace: A tool for Usability Testing of Icons, ACM-SIGCHI-SI National Usability Conference Easy 2004, Bangalore, India.

[42] Katre D (2002). Systematic Modeling of Stories and Role Development of Storyteller for Interactive Multimedia, Proceedings of International Conference on Storytelling in the Digitalage organized by Media Lab and National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.

[43] Katre D (2002).Unconventional Inspirations for Creating Software Interface Metaphors, in Proceedings of International Conference on Media and Design (Mumbai, India, Sept. 2002), Volume I, 1-15.

[44] Katre D (2001). Template based Authoring for Cost Effective Multimedia Production, IEEE Multimedia Technology and Applications International Conference Proceedings, University of California, Irvine, USA, Nov. 2001, pp. 133-142.

[45] Katre D (1999). Multimedia Rendering of Spiritual Texts, Proceedings of International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 1999), University of Abertay, Dandee, Scotland, UK., pp. 500-507.

International / National Panels

[1] What the stakeholders think of LAMs Convergence?, Panel Moderator: Dinesh Katre (C-DAC), Panellists: Rolf Kallman (Swedish National Heritage Resources Board), Martin Flynn (National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK), Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, India), P. R. Goswami (Central Secretariat Library, New Delhi) Mukul K. Sinha (Expert Software Consultants, India), ICLAM 2011, New Delhi, India.

[2] Promoting the technologies that respect your culture, Panellists: Dinesh Katre (C-DAC), Nicole Schadewitz (Open University), Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (TVU), International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2010), Hosted by Thames Valley University, London, UK.

[3] Future of UX in India, Panel Moderator: Sanjay Tripathi (ABB) Panellists: Dinesh Katre (C-DAC), Jan Gulliksen (Upssala Univ), Jhumkee Iyengar, India HCI / IDID, 2010, IDC, IIT Mumbai, India.

[4] Cultural Usability, Panel Moderator: Dinesh Katre (C-DAC) Panellists: Torkil Clemmensen (CBS), Andy Smith (TVU), Lene Nielsen (Snitkers), Pradeep Yammiyavar (IIT-G), IFIP Conference on Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural & Organizational Contexts, 2009, Pune, India.

[5] Combining usability with empirical studies of human work, Panellists: Masaaki Kurosu, Kerstin Roese, Dinesh Katre, Rikke Orngreen, Cultural Usability and Human Work Interaction Design - techniques that connects: NordiCHI 2008, Lund, Sweden.

[6] How best can mobile technology support social causes?, Panellists: Dinesh Katre (C-DAC), Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft), Jan Blom (Nokia), S. Ghoshal (NID), USID Conference 2008, Bangalore, India.

[7] Multi-disciplinary Perspectives of Usability, Panel Moderator: Dinesh Katre (C-DAC) Panellists: Pradeep Yammiyavar (IIT-G), Neela Rajhans (CoEP), Pradeep Pendse (Welingkar Institute), Aniruddha Joshi (IDC, IIT), Sameer Chabukswar (Persitent Systems), Conference on Advances in Usability Engineering 2008, Pune, India.